Fellows & Editors
Olga Khazan
- Trip:
- Brazil 2014
- Affiliation:
- The Atlantic
- Country:
- Brazil
- Year:
- 2014
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Olga Khazan is an associate editor at The Atlantic, covering health and gender issues. Prior to that, she was a producer and blogger covering international issues, health, technology and business for The Washington Post. She has also worked for Physicians for Human Rights. Khazan has a master's in online journalism from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s in political science from American University.
Khazan was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Brazil in 2015.
Stories
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The Brazilian Guide to Weight Loss
Bela Gil hosts one of Brazil’s most popular food TV shows, Bela Cozinha, now in its fifth season. The premise is putting a hip, healthy spin on Brazilian classics...
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Sexism in Paradise
Two dozen women formed a circle and linked hands on a stretch of concrete near the Carioca metro station here Wednesday, dancing and chanting. They called for the fall of Eduardo Cunha,...
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Why Brazil Loves Breastfeeding
The other day here, I saw something I rarely encounter back home in Washington. A young woman holding a toddler sat down at the table next to me at a boardwalk cafe....
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What the U.S. Can Learn From Brazil’s Healthcare Mess
On a recent afternoon in Boa Vista, a lower-middle-class neighborhood of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Noranei Oliveira Miranda waited patiently on a small couch for the local community health workers to arrive. Her...
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The Site of Several 2016 Olympic Aquatic Events Has 195 Times the Safe Amount of Sewage in the Water
Tall and tan and young and lovely, the girl from Ipanema goes … “Ew, what’s that smell?” {image-1} At Ipanema beach in January, the organization Meu Rio...
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An Ex- Ex-Gay Lesbian Pastor Preaches Tolerance in Brazil
Many devout Christians believe the Bible condemns homosexuality, a fact that has prompted countless culture (and legal, and Twitter) wars worldwide. Leviticus 18:22 reads, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with...
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Sex Workers Are Excited for the World Cup Because They Think It Will Make Them Rich
Gabriela Jancart came to Recife five years ago from the nearby, rural town of Palmares in search of work to support her mother. Her high-school education might have landed her a job...
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Why Most Brazilian Women Get C-Sections
{image-1} A newborn lies in an incubator at the Perinatal Clinic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after birth via cesarean section. Photo: Felipe Dana/AP When Ivana Borges learned she was pregnant,...
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Harsh Reproductive Math in the Slums
{image-1} The view from a shack in the Recife slum area of Coelhos. Photo: Olga Khazan “You just press the ring here, and put it inside your vagina, and keep pushing...
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Should Men Pay More at All-You-Can-Eat Buffets?
I have only been in Brazil for a few days, but I am ready to make one ignorant American overgeneralization: This country loves its buffets. I have dined buffet-style for almost all...
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Brazil’s Government Gives Money to Women Because ‘They’re More Reliable’
{image-1} Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks on the 10th anniversary of Bolsa Familia, in 2013. (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters) Brazil, as you might have heard from dozens of...
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